Trip.com creates own AI tool
China's largest OTA launched its own large language model (LLM) called Wendao, which roughly translates to "ask for your ways" in Chinese
Trip.com's travel-oriented Wendao LLM, which is still in the testing phase and only available to a small group of users, was trained with 20 billion quality travel-relevant data sets, bolstered by the company's real-time data and its proprietary search algorithm, according to Liang.
Key takeaways
- To ensure that Wendao provides the most accurate response, the group also invested in significant manual labour to verify the accuracy of answers generated by the AI model;
- Apart from using LLM to provide users with precise travel information and deal recommendations, Trip.com has also applied the technology to streamline its own operations;
- Trip.com's LLM initiative reflects the broader Chinese tech industry's determination to close the gap with the West in building ChatGPT-like services, as Beijing steps up efforts to regulate AI by implementing a national standard for LLMs.
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